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Act 1 Just South of the Unicorns: This is a story about a great fan of Piers Anthony, Andy ran away from home to tried to find his idol author with 1000 miles distance. But he didn't even now how Piers looked like, and he found Piers. He begged Piers to stay and told him almost everything about himself, and finally he went back home with disappointment. Act 2 Oh! The Places You Will NOT Go!: This is about a man who thought he was a cockroach and wrote to a world famous doctor for advice who only replies him in rhyme. And finally the man who thought he was a cockroach died. And his sister wrote a letter to the doctor that her brother was a bettle and he dreamed about flying when he was young. And this story was a fiction story by
When I was little, I was always wondering why people did not like to talk with others. They were so introverted and only focus on their personal stuff. It was just like they were stuck in their own world. Along with the inventions of high-tech equipment, the number of people who would rather sit down and talk to their family and friends instead of playing their cell phone is decreasing. So I want to have a “Talk day. This is a day that everyone stops their works, studies, stop playing cell phone, iPad, or laptop, and only focus on talking to their friends and family with a face-to-face way.
Talk to people face to face is a good way to exchange people’s diverse ideas, which can help us on enhancing our knowledge and deepening our understanding. Plenty of famous theories and principles were established and found during thousands of times of talking and discussion. Without those brain storms, we wouldn’t have any chances to find many mathematic theories and dynamic principles. In our daily life, if we talk to others more often and exchange our ideas with others’, we might have a more open-minded perspective. For instance, if I have a problem that I could not solve by myself, by talking to others might give me some inspirations that could help me solve it. Talk to people face to face can strengthen the bond of relationship. We all know that human beings are the so-called “social animal”, which means that people need to contact with their family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers. So, the most comfortable and most relaxing way of contacting with people is to talk to them face to face. Talk to people face to face can do a lot than just chatting online or on the cell phone. We can see the person’s emotion through his body language, which is the thing that you cannot tell through the smiling emoji. While the conversation is going, the bond of relationship between you will be strengthened as well. You will know this person a lot better than just chatting on the virtual media, and this is what Talk day can bring us. Talk to people face to face will also help us to express feelings. Sometimes we may have some negative emotions, and we might want to hold them and don’t let anyone else know them despite they really don’t make you feel good. However, if we talk it to our family or friends, the circumstances might be better than you just hold them. In the other hand, we may sometimes feel very happy, and if we share this optimistic emotion with others, we will be even happier. So the Talk day should be a day that everyone can express their feelings freely and unencumberedly. For those reasons before, I think the Talk day is really a great opportunity for all the people to do whatever positive they want through the face-to-face talk way. And I believe people will get closer, also the society will be more stable by this special Talk day. Reflection: I wrote this article based on the five steps of writing. And I thought a lot before I started to write this article. At first, I could not come up with a good idea of a new national holiday, then Linda's idea inspired me. Instead of "I LOVE YOU Day", why not have a Talk day? It is more acceptable and easier to execute. Then I started to write this article and posted it on the weebly. One advantage of working in peers is you can easily find where you should improve by checking her comments. I do have a problem of writing the sentences too long, and Linda picked that out for me, thankfully, and I started to rewrite the first article and tried to find a way to make it better. And here you can see this article. :) This article has a brand new topic that I have never met before, and it was also a kind of challenge for me, but luckily I handled it. I hope we can have more works like this in the future and work in peers as well, that was a great fun. :) When I was little, I was always wondering why people, especially adults, do not like to talk with others. They were so introverted and only focus on their personal stuff; it was like they were stuck in their own world. Along with the inventions of high-tech equipment, for instance, iPhone, iPad, the number of people who would rather sit down and talk to their family and friends instead of playing their cell phone is decreasing. So I want to have a “Talk day, which is a day that everyone stops their works, studies, and stop playing cell phone, iPad, or laptop, and only focus on talk to their friends and family with a face-to-face way.
Talk to people face to face is a good way to exchange people’s diverse ideas, which can help us on enhancing our knowledge and deepening our understanding. Plenty of famous theories and principles were established and found during thousands of times of talking and discussion. Without those brain storms, we wouldn’t have any chances to find many mathematic theories and dynamic principles. In our daily life, if we talk to others more often and exchange our ideas with others’, we might have a more open-minded perspective. For instance, if I have a problem that I could not solve by myself, by talking to others might give me some inspirations that could help me solve it. Talk to people face to face can strengthen the bond of relationship. We all know that human beings are the so-called “social animal”, which means that people need to contact with their family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers. So, the most comfortable and most relaxing way of contacting with people is to talk to them face to face. Talk to people face to face can do a lot than just chatting online or on the cell phone. We can see the person’s emotion through his body language, which is the thing that you cannot tell through the smiling emoji. While the conversation is going, the bond of relationship between you will be strengthened as well. You will know this person a lot better than just chatting on the virtual media, and this is what Talk day can bring us. Talk to people face to face will also help us to express feelings. Sometimes we may have some negative emotions, and we might want to hold them and don’t let anyone else know them despite they really don’t make you feel good. However, if we talk it to our family or friends, the circumstances might be better than you just hold them. In the other hand, we may sometimes feel very happy, and if we share this optimistic emotion with others, we will be even happier. So the Talk day should be a day that everyone can express their feelings freely and unencumberedly. For those reasons before, I think the Talk day is really a great opportunity for all the people to do whatever positive they want through the face-to-face talk way. And I believe people will get closer, also the society will be more stable by this special Talk day. 1) What year is it when the boys first explore the house?
1977. 2) Set the scene: describe the interior of the house. It was dark inside. The only lights came in through the cracks between the windows. The floor was full of clothes and junks. Some of the rooms were full of stuff so they could not even get in there. In the kitchen, there were some open shelves, pots and cans, and the punches were stuck with can food, and it was just a mess. There's a calendar hanging on the wall of the kitchen. 3) What 2 items does Adam take from the house? The eyeglasses and the wallet. 4) Why does Adam become so obsessed with the Nason family? He thinks that he might be cursed by the abandoned house, and since he says he is a moody kid, and also his friends were going back to their old school, he doesn't show much interests on the new school life. 5) Why didn't the boys ever go in the basement? The door to the basement has been blocked by a couch, as if someone is trying to keep something down there from getting out. 6) You should be about 16 minutes into the episode, pause the show and make a prediction: What do you think happened to Virgil Nason and his family? Maybe they were murdered by someone they thought they had locked in the basement but actually escaped from the windows of the basement. Maybe his son was killed during the war so he was kind of in a hurry, and he never made it back to home because he was killed as well. Maybe something horrible happened in his house and force him to abandon this house in such a hurry and he didn't have time to pick up all his stuff. 7) What is it like at Nason Grocery? Is it similar or different from the house? There're some boxes lying on the floor. The Nason Grocery was a completely intact and perfectly preserved store in 1960s. The products were still on the shelf, and there're some apartments upstair. It is different from the house. 8) Why does Adam take his mom to the house? He was afraid that when he grew up, he would thought that all these things were just the products of his imagination. So he tried to tell something about it to his mother. As his mother didn't quite believe it, he led her to the house. 9) After Mom sees the house, where does she take Adam? She takes Adam to the cemetery where the Nason were buried. 10) How do Adam's mom and sister "blow it?" and what happens to the house? They go to the house and wanted to take away a child crib from upstairs, but their behavior is witness by a boy walked by, and the boy told two women and they stop Adam's mom and sister from doing this. Adam feels that he is betrayed. The house was gone as well as the Nason Grocery. 12) Adam's mom says "objects have lives." Do you agree or disagree? Why? I do agree his mom's saying. Because just his mother says, the objects are witnesses, and they are the proof that show something has really existed, even now people don't remember them any more. People's memory will go wrong, and people may forget things after they have been finished for such a long time. But the objects are the leader that could make you remember them all. 13) Around 30 mintes "The Nason's might not be what you expect..." Make a prediction: What do you think they were like? They might be a family who were hiding from someone else, and the finding-relative stuff was just a cover for the people who wants to find the Nason's. 14) Who is Samantha Thurston? She is Mr. and Mrs. Nason's great great granddaughter. 15) What were the Nason children like? They were scruffy little kids and needing to be washed. They were barefoot and it seemed that they have never been to school. They were a little scary. 16) Who does Adam give his box of Nason stuff to? Samantha Thurston. 17) What actually happened to the Nason Mr. and Mrs. Nason picked up so many things, they were called "the keepers of everything". After Mr. Nason was died, his nine sons sold all the valuable things and spilt out all their property. And then they just left the house there since they didn't want to pay for the house any more. 18) Do you think the storytelling in "House on Loon Lake" is effective? Why or why not? Did it keep your interest? What factors contributed to the storytelling (example: music) and how did Ira and Company set the mood for the tale? Yes I do think that the storytelling in "House on Loon Lake" is effective. It kept my interest by many different factors. The way Adam talked, the music, the conversation that Adam had with others all contributed to the storytelling. Especially the music, that was one of the greatest part of the whole storytelling. At some time, the music was so scary and it made an atmosphere that would make you scared but not too much, and make you want to keep listening at the same time. The way Adam talked is also very attractive. Sometimes, when he talked about the basement, he would lower his voice, and this made me afraid that something horrible would come after; when he talked about he met the neighbor of Nasons', he used a more normal tone and made the audience feel relaxed. Ira and the company set a mystic and a little bit scary as well as interesting mood for the tale. And I have to say that it did attracted me a lot. When I was in primary school, I was a boarding student since my school is far from the place where I live, and I had never thought about that I would meet my primary school classmate. But it just happened, Back to the time when I was a freshman for middle school, I attended the flag raising ceremony, and somehow I noticed that a girl standing next to the girl in front of me looked like my classmate. I didn't think that it would be coincidental enough for me to meet my primary school classmate, especially my primary school was so far away from my middle school. But after the flag raising ceremony was closing to the end, she turned around somehow, and I could see that she was exactly my classmate from primary school! I was so surprised and also delighted to see her around. She also recognized me, and waved her hand to me. After the flag raising ceremony, we headed back to the classrooms, and we chatted for a while in the corridor. This is such a happy coincidence.
Try it on Pg 50:
1. The topic sentence is "Without a doubt, hiking must be the best sport in the world." 2. It introduces the main idea. Because the entire paragraph is talking about how and why that hiking is the best sport and what effects it has brought to the writer. 3. What makes this topic sentence strong is the beginning "without a doubt". Its totally absolute tone makes it really strong. Try it on Pg 51: 1. The topic sentence is "What a different world it was way back then." 2. I think it is not a effective one. Although it kind of introduces the main idea of this paragraph, the way it describes the topic is not so effective, if the writer change it into declarative sentence with absolute tone, maybe it will be better. 3. People could only having phone calls in some certain places, emergency will often be delayed since people can not contact to the other one at the first time, they have to chat with friends after they get home, how inconvenient it is without a cell phone. 4. I will add "If a person's family member has died, he will she will even not know as soon as it happened, it makes so many people upset for this." 5. This sentence "How ever did they live without being able to text?" breaks up the flow of ideas. TAL: 1) Who is the host? Ira Glass. 2) How many years has the show been on the air? 18 years (since 1995). 3) How many episodes? 504 episodes so far. 4) What format does the show follow? They do the stories that are like movies for radio, and the people in the stories might have some dramatic situation. The stories have to be surprising and fun. 5) What is the purpose of "the theme?" It gives people the reason why they should keep listening to this broadcast. |